Like Yourself Quotes - Page 5

• For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.

  Louis Menand

  Writing, Thinking, Discipline

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be." You realize that you need to like yourself.

  Angel Olsen

  Mother, Girlfriend, Father

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I once read a quote that I think was Michelle Pfeiffer in an article, who said that she thought people went into acting because maybe if you could convince millions of people to like you, you will finally like yourself, approve of yourself. I don't know if that may have been a part of it.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, People, Acting

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Drama, Thinking, Matter

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• It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Relationship, Love Yourself

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't like your sister or don't get along with your father, let's find out if you like yourself. Let's not sugarcoat anything about it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Father, Ifs

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• Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

  John Hughes

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

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• I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

  Chinua Achebe

  Doors, Color, Different

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Oct 31, 2015

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• You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

  Judith Butler

  Identity, Allegiance, Particular

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• It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

  Michael Aspel

  Sound, Mouths, Corny

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